West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-07-28

q Msnnerisn is produced by missing the
fitness. '''''0o ana
az Blowing . Is not playing the flute; you must
we are only really alive when wo enjoy the
good will OF others ~ ''0
oi ~ m man s1 win perform all that people re
fN'' VI "in' nc must oyerrate himself.
The most charming takers arc those
who think rs you do.
An Austrian has invented a machine
Tor automatically lowering collins into
graves
Next year the Prince and Princess Of
wales will have been married twenty
fYe y ars.
Pr't Proctor estimates that 100, OOO.-
OOO people lived and died in America
lOO,OCO years before Columbus arrived.
Gladstone. last speech on tho Irish
Coercion bill is said to have been the
hnest OF his many great oratorical efforts.
lie IS indeed great old man.
The papal envoy to the Queens
JUDI ee ceremonies was the only one 20
receive from the English monarch the
gold medal intended solely for, royal
personages.
"A prominent cotton planter of Chat.
nam County, Georgia, named Captain
Nj. Il. Sperry, died from the bite OF q
rattlesnake, after forty minutes of in.
tense suffering.
Surmisc is busy guessing the man who
recently gave Sl25, 000sto Yale Universis
~. Governors Lounsbery and expires
ldent Porter arc both mentioned In con-
uection with the gift.
Miss b. "Why is it, Mr.. A., that
whenever you refer to q Boston friend
you invariable use the word fellow"
New Yorker; ooh, because he belongs
around the Hub, of course"
The intended wife OF Sir Salar Jung,
the great Indian nabob, is girl only
eleven years of age. She is well edu-
Gated and her mother is a leader in tho
woman's emancipation movement.
The Rome Sentinel tells a story of a
dog whose hair has tnrned white
through stress Of pain and sorrow II
1t had properly reflected the dogs mind
1t ought to have turned blue. Nextl
An inqulring man thrust his fingers
AhNO q AAOiSO . HlOuAn 10 see now MANY
teeth he had and the horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity of each was fully
satisfied.
There is some talk OF Mr.. Moody, tho
evangelist, gong to India. DIR. Arthur
I. Pearson, of Philadelphia, has an.
nounced his intention of accompanying
tho Norihdeld preacher should he de-
eide to go.
Contributors "Herc is manuscript
| wish to submit. p" Editor (waving his
handl: "pm sorry. We are full Just
now" Contributor (blandly) every
we'll, will call again when some of you
arc sober"
A 12>year.old lad of Sag Harbor, Me-.
daily sits down TO tho table with his
father. and mother, grandfather and
grandmother, and great gran ifather and
two great grandmothers. The little fol.
low has hunted look and lodges at
every word that is spoken.
"A little follow of four years went to
blacksmith TO see his fathers horse
shodi and was watching closely the work
OF the shoeIng. The blacksmith began TO
pare the horses hoof, and thinking this
wrong, the little boy said, earnestly,
My pa don't want his horse made any
smaller"
An Indian chief who was visiting at
Washington at Government expense, was
introduced to Senator recently who has
very bald head. The chief looked at
him some moments with great interest.
Finally he said "Ugh " hcre you fight
lnjun some timei"
1t is said that in Portland. Nc,
there is man with false nose, glass
eye, but three fingers and one thumb,
enc ear, false teeth, false hair and o cork
leg. For all this he is the livclicst man
in Portland. lie walks 10 miles every
day, rain or shine, He has had three
wives, survived them all, and has rcfusD
ed five chances to get married again. so
he says, since he buried his last wife,
about year ago.